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A42751	A treatise against superstitious Jesv-worship wherein the true sense of Phil. 2, 9-10 is opened, and from thence is plainly shewed and by sundry arguments proved, that corporall bowing at the name Jesus, is neither commanded, grounded, or warranted thereupon ... / written especially for the benefit of weake seduced persons that have a zeale towards God, though not according to knowledge by Mascall Giles.	Giles, Mascall, 1595 or 6-1652.	1642 (1642)	Wing G738; ESTC R28636	55,934	65

knees when the most of them have no such knees to bow If it should be said that those Subjects of such a King cannot pay where it is not it is sufficient that they pay what they are able but let them that are able pay the whole summe I answer this had been reasonable if the Kings command had been so but how shall this excuse the King that against his knowledge shall command all his Subjects to pay alike as well those that are not able as those that are So to say in respect of this Bowing let those that have no knees pay what they can but let those that have knees pay knees It were faire indeed if God should leave it so at libertie But how can this at quit God of want of wisdome and justice if he should command all creatures and things to bow corporall knees when he knoweth that the most of his creatures and things have no such knees to bow Seeing then that bowing of the knee cannot be taken literally I understand it of subjection and so it is taken Gen. 27. 29. Thus Isaac blesseth Jacob Let people serve thee and Nations bow downe to thee that is let them be subject to thee So Pro. 14. 19. c So in common use of speech when one saith to another that he will make him bow he meaneth that he will make him yeeld The same subjection is signified Psal. 2. 12. by the word Kisse where Rulers and Judges are commanded to kisse Christ that is to yeeld their subjection to him If then the word Kisse in that place cannot be taken properly but figuratively why should it be thought unreasonable by any to have bowing the knee here to be understood figuratively Now that bowing here is meant of subjection many correspondent places doe evidently prove it as 1 Cor. 15. 27. H●b. 2. 8. Ephes. 1. 22. testified by the most judicious Primitive Fathers that write upon the said Text as also by our most eminent moderne Divines as that worthy and famous Confessor of Christ Master William Prin largely evidenceth in his learned Appendix against bowing at the Name Jesus to which I referre thee By bowing every knee of things in Heaven things in Earth and things under the Earth is understood the subjection of all things and creatures with all and every one of their powers faculties vertues and abilities will they nill they to the dominion and government of Christ There is not the least abilitie in the nature of man saith Master Gurnay but must finde a knee to bow to Christ our least muscles and knuckles inclinations and dispositions The like may be said of every creature they must bow the strength they have in every part of them to the power and dominion of Christ And in this generall sense the knee of the body properly so called is not excluded but in a proper and literall sense it is not injoyned Secondly It is to be considered what is meant by the confession of every tongue By the confession of every tongue is not meant properly and literally the vocall confession of that member which we call the tongue because every Name under Christs Name which must bow the knee must also confesse with the tongue which for the most part want tongues as well as knees By the confession with the tongue that Jesus Christ is the Lord is meant the expression and yeelding forth of the severall parts functions gifts powers and abilities of every creature both rationall and irrationall to the glory and praise of Christ the highest Lord 1. That it is understood of all kinds of creatures it is evident from the forequoted place of Rev. 5. vers. 10. where the foure Beasts and the foure and twenty Elders by whom are understood rationall creatures as Angels and men are said to extoll and glorifie Christ And it follows verse 13. that John heard all the creatures in Heaven and Earth and under the Earth and in the Sea and all that are in them to say Praise glory and honour be to the Lambe c. which creatures there are all irrationall creatures which have no proper tongues to speake and yet are said to speak the praise of Christ Even as the Heavens and the Earth are said Psal. 19. 1 2 3. to speake in all languages the praise of God their Creatour So now they shall praise Christ the great Lord and Redeemer And secondly that every part and parcell of the creature shall praise the Lord it appeares from Psal. 103. 1 2 3. where the Prophet David calles upon his Soule and all that is within him that is all the vigours and powers that are in every part of him to praise the Lord As David in every part of him praised God and the Messiah to come so shall every part of every creature either willingly or unwillingly praise and extoll the great Name of the Lord Jesus being come and advanced and in this generall sense the proper tongue of man is not excluded And thus at the last day the Friends of Christ with their wills and his enemies against their wills shall call Christ Lord Mat. 7. 22. Mat. 25. 37. 44. SECTION IV. Wherein it is to be considered what is meant by this phrase In the Name of Jesus THe Bowers at the Name Jesus to make their opinion and practise good doe thus understand in the Name of Jesus to be at the mention of the Name Jesus But I inferre that this interpretation is sensles and absurd having for it no ground or warrant from Scripture For 1. as I said before this phrase Name of Jesus is never taken for the Name Jesus or for any other Titles of our Saviour 2. Therefore In the Name of Jesus can never be taken for at the mention of the Name Jesus anywhere 3. This phrase in the Name prefixed before any of the Titles of the Deitie as in the Name of Christ Lord God c. is never taken for at the Naming of any of these Names in any part of the Old and new Testament but if any shall fasten such a sense upon it anywhere it will marre and murder the sense as indeed it doth the sense of this Text by that exposition To instance but in two places amongst many Psal. 118. 10. All Nations compassed me about but in the Name of the Lord I will destroy them would not it be a wilde sense to say At the Naming of the Lord I will destroy them So Act. 9. 29. Saul spake boldly in the Name of the Lord Jesus were it not infinitely absurd to say that he spake boldly at the Naming of the Lord Jesus Thus ridiculous will the sense be made every where where this phrase is used according to this exposition try it who will This exposition which they make of the Text is one of the maine pillars of their cause which did they not make they should loose a maine and principall ground for this their opinion and practise and therefore this failing

the creatures together at once But bowing at the Name Jesus cannot be done by all at once suppose we understand it onely of rationall creatures For how can the Angels and glorified Saints understand when Jesus is named on Earth How can we on Earth heare when Jesus is named in Heaven How can those under the Earth know when Jesus is named in Heaven or Earth How can those in Heaven and Earth know when Jesus is named in Hell or could it be known were it fit then to bow Yea how can we heare when Jesus is named in another Congregation But grant it be referred to one particular place how can it be done How shall things in Heaven bow at the Name Jesus when they have the Person of Christ with them which by Bishop Andrewes assertion before specified would be unseasonable to be then performed How shall deafe men bow at the Name Jesus who cannot heare it pronounced What shall not they fulfill the Text as well as others Seeing no creature is excepted Is not Christ Lord of them as well as of others How shall young Infants bow at the Name Jesus to whom Gods Kingdome belongs as to others How shall things in hell bow at the Name Jesus To speake first of Devils which come into our Congregations how if they had knees shall they bow at the Name Jesus These Devils tremble say some because of Jesus but trembling is not bowing 2. Shall they tremble more at the Name Jesus than Christ or Jehovah It were sensles to imagine it How shall the damned Soules in Hell bow at the Name Jesus After what manner shall Jesus be named in hell There is no Church there no divine service there which is the place and season these men say of this bowing There is nothing in hell but blaspheming what shall they blaspheme and then bow if they had bodies most ridiculous What shall they not fulfill the Text in hell and be under Christs power untill Jesus be named then they might ease their torment by forbearing the mention of that Name Seeing in hell they can doe nothing but blaspheme how shall they Bow The Bowers at the Name Jesus doe maintaine that when men sweare by Jesus it is no time and place for bowing yet the worst manner of naming Jesus on earth is better than the best in hell therefore there is no time and place for it in hell yet must things in hell fulfill the Text therefore it cannot be the meaning of the Text to bow at the Name Jesus SECTION XI THe aforesaid exposition of the said Text will make us serve God in bondage Therefore it is an untrue and false Exposition The Consequent is plaine for Christ hath brought us to libertie and made us free Gal. 5. 1. in which freedome we are commanded to stand fast That it will bring us againe into bondage it is plaine for it will tye the service of God to every mans will be they never so vile for whensoever Jesus is named by whomsoever if this exposition be true we must bow yea therefore it will bring guilt of sin upon the soules of every one that shall at any time heare this Name Jesus named and not bow By this meanes Christ shall bring us into greater bondage than the bondage of the Ceremoniall Law from which he delivered his Church To this I will subjoyne another Argument It will bring the Spirt of God into bondage Therefore it is a wicked opinion I prove it from John 3. 8. The winde bloweth where it listeth i. e. The Spirit of God worketh when and where he pleaseth and not at our pleasure All the holy actions of a Christian are wrought by the Holy Ghost therefore by this exposition the worke of the Holy Ghost will be enthralled to the will of every man yea of vile men also The answer which they give to this hath no weight in it they make use here of this Rule Praecepta affirmativa c. Affirmative Precepts doe alwayes binde but not to all times Therefore say they we are not bound to doe it but when the Church orders it viz. In time of Divine Service and Sermons I reply this rule holds in those Precepts the time of performance whereof is not determined in the Word but it cannot hold in this place For as these men expound the Text the time is appointed when this bowing shall be performed viz. At the mention of the Name Jesus Therefore it is a sinne at any time to name it or heare it named and not to bow Gods unlimited Commands cannot be limited therefore the Church limiting it to a time could not ground it on Gods Command The Name Jesus is the same Name at one time or place as at another It cannot be proved in the whole booke of God but when God determined a time of doing any thing but that it bound ordinarily at that time When a Master shall say to his servant At my calls you shall answer and give attendance When his Master shall call and he give no attendance is not he disobedient Would it be a good excuse for him to tell his Master That he is not bound to waite upon him but onely at the Table So if God shall say At the sound of the Name Jesus you shall bow when they heare it often mentioned and will not bow doe they not breake Gods command Will it be a tolerable excuse to plead that they are not bound to doe it but onely at Church When Nebuchadnezzar made a Decree Dan. 3 that at the sound of the Cornet Sackbutt c. all should fall downe and worship did not he intend that this command should binde at all times when these Instruments should be sounded out And did not the people of the Land judge Shadrach Meshach and Abednego to be transgressours of the Kings Commandement when having heard the sound they did not bow So if God should say At the sound of the Name Jesus you shall all bow It is a manifest breach of the Commandement when at any time it is heard and no bowing performed Therefore when Gods commandement is plaine and unlimited and they say the Church must limit it they give the Church authoritie over Gods Word They cannot deny but they must be alwayes internally reverent at the Name Jesus according to the third Commandement which injoynes inward reverence at all times when we mention any of Gods Titles or else Gods Name shall be taken in vaine If then expression of outward reverence at the Name Jesus be also Gods command it must be performed at all times when it is mentioned or else the Name Jesus will be profaned unlesse they will have the Precepts of the Gospell lesse obligatory and binding than the Precepts of the Law They may therefore with as good reason affirme that we are not bound to be internally reverent at all times when we mention the Name Jesus or any other divine Titles but onely in the Church as not

them all failes them I know they are not able to bring any one Scripture for to warrant this exposition They have no vision for it therefore they are naked It is built upon the loose Sand of vaine opinion and not upon the Scriptures therefore it falles to the ground All the warrant they have for this exposition is this that in doth often signifie at or to I answer this is nothing except they can bring any Scripture for the whole phrase viz. that in the Name doth signifie at the mention of the Name which they cannot doe For my part I refuse not to take the Preposition {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as they would have it taken and so it shall make for me and not for them Let in be as much as to or at and so for as much as I have shewed before that Name of God or Christ doth denote the Power and glory of Christ either expressely or implicitely I take it this phrase In the Name of Jesus may be indifferently referred either to the Power and glory of Christ expressely so the sense will be this Every knee or Power shall bow at or to the Power and Glory of Christ or rather to the Person of Christ implicitly enfolding his Power and Dominion and then the sense will be this Every knee shall bow at or to Christ And thus it agrees to this phrase in Psal. 63. 4. Thee will I blesse while I live I will lift up my hands in thy Name that is I will lift up mine hands to thee or I will worship and adore thee and agrees fitly also with Isa. 45. 23. which is applyed to Christ Rom. 14. 11. As I live saith the Lord every knee shall bow to me So that according to the meaning of the Preposition in in their owne sense the whole phrase being expounded according to the Analogie of Faith makes against them and not as all for them SECTION V. THus having opened the Text I will briefely gather the sense together according as it hath been opened and shew the meaning of the Text and compare it to the exposition which they make of it and then let judgement passe upon it The sense then will be this Our Lord Jesus Christ being in the forme of God equall with God made himselfe of no reputation that is laid downe his Name and Dignitie and received a Name beneath all Names and being made like unto Man and taking upon him the forme of a Servant humbled himselfe to death even to the death of the Crosse Wherefore God highly exalted him and gave him a Name above every Name that is Glory Renowne Dominion and Dignitie above all things and creatures created Powers Dignities Dominions that all things creatures powers in Heaven and Earth and under the Earth should subject themselves and all their strength vertues and abilities either willingly or unwillingly to Jesus Christ thus glorified and advanced and that they should expresse and shew forth that Jesus Christ is Lord in the glory of God the Father for so I take it that {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} must be understood {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} being often used for {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and thus this branch of Christs exaltation will fully answer to that branch of his humiliation mentioned verse 7. where it is said that he tooke upon him the forme of a servant and was made in the likenesse of Man but now being exalted he shall be manifested to be Lord in the Glory of God the Father Which shall be fully declared in the great Day of Judgement when he shall appeare in his Glorious Name of Power and Glory And of this opinion are Ambrose and Hierome and other Fathers and Calvin and Zanchius and Piscator besides sundry other moderne Expositors doe allow of it Though the other expositions be sound viz. To the Glory of God the Father because the honour of the Sonne is the honour of the Father Now this exposition is full and easie making the sense cleere but the other exposition which they make makes the sense rugged and is not agreeable to the scope of the Text nor sense of other correspondent Scriptures For thus they reason Jesus Christ being in the forme of God though it no robbery to be equall with God but made himself of no reputation c. Wherefore God highly advanced him and gave him a proper Name or Title above every Name that when the Name Jesus shall be sounded out in the Church in the time of prayer or preaching for there and then say they is the place and time of this dutie all things in Heaven and Earth and under the Earth should bow corporall knees A most absurd and sensles exposition I will note here a few absurdities which they make in the sense by this their interpretation in comparison of the cleernesse of the former exposition leaving the most materiall absurdities to be considered of hereafter First then To understand Name above every Name for Glory and Power above all hereby is evidently set downe what Name it is that God gave to Christ viz. the Name of Power and Glory But to understand Name for a proper Name to be called by it is not manifested what Name it is they say it is the Name Jesus but the Text doth not say so in that phrase as they understand it And expounding it of the Name Jesus what absurditie is this to say that God gave his Sonne that Name at his exaltation when he received it at his Circumcision This is to make God to dally with his Sonne To give and take and to give againe For it is plaine that if now he had it given him it was not then in his possession Secondly When we understand Name for the Power and Glory of Christ and bowing of subjection to the Power of Christ or to Christ himself advanced it is shewed to whom this bowing shall be performed viz. to Christ But by understanding Name for the Name Jesus and the bowing to be done at the sound thereof they onely set downe a time when the bowing shall be done but they declare not to whom it shall be done This they say At the sound of the Name Jesus every knee shall bow but they doe not manifest the Person to whom these knees shall bow Thirdly In taking in the Name of Jesus to be at the mention of the Name Jesus as they doe not plainly apply any honour to the Person so neither to the Name but it must stand but for a cypher or watch-word to give notice when the bowing shall be performed but according to this their exposition they cannot give it any honour and it is absurd to have this Name to be so highly advanced above all Names and yet not to give it honour But they will have honour to be given it therefore they will have in the Name to be understood to the Name at the mention of it And

so Bishop Andrewes the Oracle of that opinion understands it yet hereby is not the Person of Christ properly denominated because so the exposition referres the whole bowing to the Name none at all to the Person and themselves confesse that to bow to the Name and not to the Person is Idolatry But they say it is done to the Person by bowing to the Name I reply to passe by the censure of such a kinde of worship for so saith Bishop * Babington an Idolater may excuse his Idolatry by this distinction of concomitancy What they say is one thing and how they expound the Text is another according to their exposition of the Text they cannot make that sense of it except they adde to the Text so that according to their owne grounds they must make the worship either vaine or Idolatrous No marvaile therefore that that judicious and learned Dr Whitakers reckoning up sundry absurd interpretations which the Papists make of the Scriptures concludes with this their interpretation of this Text from whom our superstitious-Jesu-worshippers had it as the most absurd and grossest of all and no marvaile that famous Bishop * Babington censures such to be justly given up of God to delusions to beleeve lyes because they will not search for truth Now I come to handle sundry Arguments against bowing at the Name Jesus SECTION VI EVery true interpretation of a Text especially an obscure Text must be warranted by Scripture speaking of the same matter or in the same phrases But to affirme that the Name Jesus in the Text of Phil. 2. 9 10. is the Name above every Name not onely created but divine and that therefore we must bow at the sound of that Name is not warranted by any correspondent Scriptures speaking often of the same matter Or to expound these phrases Name above Names made or given to be the advancement of a naked proper Name above such Names or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the Name of Jesus to be the Name Jesus or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in the Name to be at the sound of the Name None of these expositions are warranted by Scripture speaking often in the same phrases Ergo Not one of these expositions which these superstitious Jesu-worshippers make the ground of their opinion and practise is a trve exposition Let the Minor be disproved if it can The Major is proved from Rom. 12. 6. If any Prophesie let him prophesie according to the proportion of faith So 2 Pet. 1. 20. No Scripture hath any private interpretation It is an infallible rule set downe by Divines for the understanding of the Scriptures Thus saith learned Zanchius Altera interpretandi Scripturas regula est c. Another Rule saith he of interpreting the Scriptures is a diligent and accurate comparing of the Scriptures which are of the same thing one with another that is that we expound the more obscure Scriptures by those that are more evident and cleere for the Scripture is an interpreter of it selfe than which a better cannot be found And this saith Austine Non ita esse interpretandum unum locum ut cum multis alijs pugnet sed ut cum multis alijs consentiat We must not so understand one place that it disagree with many others but that it agree with many others This then their interpretation above mentioned agrees with no place but disagrees with all it is therefore none of Gods Truths SECTION VII VVHatsoever Bowing is required by the Text shall be necessarily performed by every creature in Heaven in Earth and under the Earth But Bowing at the Name Jesus shall not be performed by every Creature in Heaven in Earth and under the Earth Therefore Bowing at the Name Jesus is not required by the Text The Minor is plaine for to omit now to speake of Angels Devils and dumbe creatures Bowing at the Name Jesus shall not be performed by the most men for many Nations know not Christ therefore cannot so bow all their life famous Churches do not so bow If this then be the true bowing I would faine know how and at what time they shall performe it that in this life performe it not To deny the Major is absurd for the Text is plaine that Christ is advanced to so high a Name that every creature should bow to him in that name 2. It is such a bowing as there is also a demonstration that Christ is Lord therefore if any creature shall be exempted from the bowing in the Text Christ should not be their Lord which would be derogatory to Christs honour and contrary to evident Scriptures as Mat. 28. 19. where all Power is given Christ in Heaven and Earth And Heb. 1. 2. where Christ is called Heire that is Lord of all things Whereas then some answer that though every one shall not bow at the Name Jesus yet every one is bound to doe it they ought to performe it I reply if that bowing be the duty of the Text every one of necessitie must and shall doe it To affirme then that the dutie of the Text should be done of all though it shall not is all one as to affirme that Christ should be Lord of every creature and it behoveth him so to be though he shall not If then bowing at the Name Jesus shall not be performed of all it is manifest it is not required by the Text for all Expositors hold generally that the Text shall willingly or unwillingly be fulfilled of all SECTION VIII VVHatsoever Bowing is required by the Text shall be performed by every creature at the day of Judgement But bowing at the Name Jesus shall not be performed by every creature at the day of Judgement Therefore bowing at the Name Jesus is not required by the Text The Major is confirmed by evident paralell Scriptures as Rom. 14. 10 11. Why doest thou judge and condemne thy brother We shall all appeare before the Judgement seate of Christ As it is written Every knee shall bow to me and every tongue shall confesse to me So Heb. 2. 8. The Apostle affirming there That all things are put in subjection to Christ yet saith We doe not yet see all things put under him that is perfectly which perfection shall not be till the last day The Jews shall then fully be subject to him that now scorne him Infidels shall then perfectly be subdued to him that now know him not Devils and Reprobates shall then feele their fullest destruction * Death shall then fully bow being overcome in regard of the Saints and it being in its fullest vigour in regard of Christs enemies The Saints shall then wholly bow yeelding themselves perfectly to the honour of Christ which now they cannot doe by reason of corruption * Hell and the Grave shall then bow by yeelding up their dead But what need I further illustrate this Truth it is generally acknowledged by the most and best Expositours both